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Mystical
Skills - Overview A Mystical Skill in this game is a skill that produces some magical or supernatural effect. Currently there are seven mystical skills available to characters: Spell Casting, Shapechange, Bardic Ability, Beastmaster, Magical Resistance, Psionics, Undead Mastery. More may be added by the gamemaster of your gaming sessions. Some of these mystical skills require an initial cost be paid to represent specialized training required to acquire the skill. Thereafter skill points must be spent to increase ranks in that particular mystical skill. Separate categories of wizard spells, cleric spells, and bard spells used in other game systems are not applicable. There is only one type of magic and it is broken into 27 paths, each of which is treated as a separate skill. Spell Casting includes both free form spells and formal written spells. For each rank of shapechange a character can choose one closely related family or order of creature that he may alter his body to resemble. A bard is able to create magic-like abilities by using song, dance, playing an instrument, or similar performance skill. An example would be the Pied Piper of Hamlin. They can use song to influence others, build courage in allies, cause fear in opponents, or to counter other sound based effects. A beastmaster can use his beastmaster ability to influence normal animals. Some of these he can befriend, link with, and treat as allies. Each rank of the mystical resistance gives the character a +1 bonus to saving throws against a spell or other mystical effect. There is no initial cost to purchase mystical resistance. All characters are considered proficient at rank 0 in the Mystical Resistance skill, and will not suffer any non-proficiency penalty when using this skill with no ranks. There are many psionic abilities represented in science fiction and fantasy literature. These are abilities driven by the power of the mind and include effect like telepathy, pyrokinesis, and teleportation.. A character with this mystical skill has the ability to affect undead (the living dead) creatures. A character may attempt to turn the undead creature (make it flee), summon it, destroy it, or command it to perform a particular simple action. Artifice: Skill that allows the creation of magic items by characters. A full description is found in the magic item creation section.
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